Brian is the Managing Partner of SEC Newgate Australia and co-founder of SEC Newgate Research. He is also Deputy Chief Executive of SEC Newgate S.p.A., the parent company of SEC Newgate Australia.

In a consulting career spanning two decades, Brian has come to be regarded as one of Australia’s leading communications practitioners with expertise in strategic issues management, financial transactions, government relations, media management and community campaigning.

Brian has led several high profile and complex public affairs campaigns and financial transactions in the infrastructure, transport, banking, energy, agriculture, arts, media, and sports sectors.

Brian is a Director of AFL Club the Sydney Swans, the Committee for Sydney, SEC Newgate S.p.A and the Clontarf Foundation, which supports educational opportunities for young Indigenous Australians.

Prior to his career in consultancy, Brian was a political adviser to the Greiner Government in New South Wales. He started his career as a journalist with The Land newspaper.